Scientists have found a rare half-male, half-female songbird

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Researchers have discovered a rare songbird that is male on one side of its body, and female on the other. It's being described as a 'once in a lifetime' discovery.

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Researchers have discovered a rare songbird that is male on one side of its body, and female on the other. It's being described as a"once in a lifetime" discovery. The last time the Powdermill Nature Reserve at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History found another was 15 years ago, and it's only the fifth to be discovered out of the nearly 800,000 birds that the nature reserve has seen.

This genetic variation is known as gynandromorphism .Due to its rarity, scientists don't know much about how gynandromorphism affects the bird's life. "There probably aren't any advantages to it," Lindsay said."It will definitely impact its ability to mate. We don't know if that female side has a functional ovary. If it does, and it is able to attract a male mate, it could reproduce.

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Oh wow! Wonderful!

Did they ask it how it identified and what pronouns to use?

So they found a legendary Pokemon.

Here comes a riot over which bathroom he gets to use.

A new pet for lgtb

WOW

The bird is a democrat.

Was it found in California by chance?

Ping mikko_neuvo 😃

JiggyESQ Agenda must agend

It is strange

I once dated 'Sheila'. Also half male and female. We had some fun experiences. Dont knock it untill you've tried it.

Then in target this bird can go to whichever restroom it wants to

Wow a alphabet bird!

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It's a shemal bird

Takes hours for this bird to decide what restaurant it wants to go to.

Has Joe Biden pandered to it for a vote yet?

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Better watch out before some inbred hillbilly or rich wanker shoots it and poses on social media with it

Shame on CNN!

crazy nights alone I'll bet

'Can I shoot it?'

Tony Bobulinksi

I'm guessing it's married to itself

Gimme a close up. I know the problem with sexing chickens. Show us the vent!

It’s transgender

the LGTBQ nation has a flag, we now have a bird...

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Again the media's choice of words confuses the facts. The bird's feather characteristics where those of male on one side & female on the other: the bird 's single sex was not reported.

The bigger question, that I'm sure is on everyone's mind, is can the bird reproduce with itself?

Total nonsense

Which bathroom does it use?

I did not know DonaldJTrumpJr was a song bird.

Non-binary birds bow? 🤯🤯🤯🤯

Are they sure it's not Michael Jackson incarnate?

Thing to take note of, it was both genders as in there are only two, male or female. This bird is like a hermaphrodite, which does occur in humans, but is rare.

In Mexico the citizens have discovered a common factor in most politicians, not rare at all: They are full of sh.. in one side, and full of sh.. in the other.

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Melania

I believe we Americand created a whole separate bathroom for that type.

We already have Elton John.

they fab

So a deformed bird.

Nature always has sth 4 us New,different and amazing, we just hot to keep discovering. Wow

Just another distraction that indeed birds aren’t real and are operated on batteries via the government. That’s why these lockdowns exist, so they can replace all the batteries in the birds!1!

Wow.

A CNN wet dream! A non binary thing! 🤣

Whose lifetime? We've got 94 year old proud great grandparents that thought this Apocolypse would bring me, a saviour, and we'd be living in a golden time. It's been quite a trip and my bird magic is getting stale. Like inside air. Like isolation as therapy. Like erasing my pay.

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This is the most CNN thing I’ve read all week!

Which half

The Lindsey?

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I dont understand

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It would be beside itself I’d imagine

Which country has it discovered?

It may not be one in a million, but it's pretty close... it's only the fifth to be discovered out of the nearly 800,000 birds... One in a million s not literal but 5th out of 800,000 is not pretty close. Why not just say rare

Leave it alone.

I think it’s awesome how some birds do that I believe cardinals have something similar that happens. But when are these researchers going to find a Bigfoot in the wild that would be impressive.

JoanieReb They have named it Ziggy Stardust.

Wow, that bird is sooo beautiful. Love it ☺️☺️☺️🐦🦜

JoanieReb

I call BS

It’s getting its own reality show on Fox.

They say it could potentially lay eggs, but they don't say if it's male organs could be functional. I even linked to the news release from the group that found it. Guess I'm off to Bing it.

The different wings does not necessarily determine 'gender' alone. There are other factors that is considered like actual organs, which they failed to mention. This is a pathetic way to push an agenda.

Happens in pheasants too ,known as Mules in that particular breed,they start as a cock or hen and then gradually the feathers start to turn to the other sex,until they look half of one and half of the other,see several each year. they don't lay eggs either way

Phagget bird...

Don't hurt and bother the animal please

Would he be a Trans bird?

Wow

Yes, but which restroom will it be using?

Commie propaganda, trying to brainwash people into thinking mental illness is normal. Men should not be competing against girls in sports

NPR natgeophotos_ FT ABC MSNBC CBSNews FoxNews WSJ nytimes Wow it should be made a special mascot for LGBTQ, shouldn't it? Mother Nature loves drama. And, everybody, this songbird is one of her mystery show.

berntisbest

Great maybe they will give it a role on a diverse sitcom.

Is it gay

the great Lakes have plenty of Hermaphrodite fish, largely the result of pollution by plastics releasing hormones into water. Now 🐦 Humans next, infertility common

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We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around

Are you still questioning evolution? We have evolved and we are still evolving as we speak. Just look at Trump, a human in the outside and a black hole in the inside 😂

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To the “enby” bird: You are loved, you are valid, you matter. Love is love. End all of the phobias. Except for ophidiophobia (fear of snakes). That one is actually ok.

... did nature just produce the first avian drag queen? 😂 I can't help but feel TheTweetOfGod needs to take credit for trolling Trump here 🤣

Odd / irrelevant

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Beautiful article ! How about Hunter Biden partner press conference!?

people out here thinking theyre the same thing lmao

Which bathroom can it use

WOW!

Hogwash. Obviously botched gender reassignment surgery. choicenotbornthatway. Signed, Trump evangelicals

In the movie of this bird’s life, “scientists find” is the darkest, lowest point in the story.

Now leave the poor birds alone.

pedrogenaro

Please don't turn the poor bird to a lab rat😭😭

Does it need its own bathroom?

LGTBird?

HesterLoeff

The only bird on the planet that can literally go fuck itself!

I thought there was no such thing as male and female? 🤔

It sounds remarkably a lot like Miley Cyrus.

we are closer to apocalypse, perhaps.

You mean researchers BRED a bird to be a he-she or a she-male?

Mean it has a penisgina

Just a way to bring up gender topics. The bird has been previously discovered

beautiful!

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Scheherzadeh Tiktok user 🤭

Nature sometimes wants to test us.

I simply cannot get over how many ignorant people this article has unearthed. It really highlights failures in the US education system. Don't you teach stem subjects over there?

okay, who dyed the bird?🤔

Cool, so a hermaphrodite!

What cray cray its so pretty too

Bro waaaah? 😂😂😂😂

Its the Prince of Birdland

Oh wow!😲

All the gender fluid people must be jumping for joy

Knowing what weird artists with nothing better to do did to the PS5, I shudder to think about what people will do with this half gender concept.

I guess gynandromorphic will be a new gender next to Minotaur

Must be a democrat bird.. 🤷🏻‍♂️

The bird will now have to suffer as leftists make it's 'sexual oppression' a global issue.

Wow!

So does it reproduce all by itself? That would be crazy!?!(!

Little Richard has existed for a long time, and certainly is once in a lifetime. Rock on!

CNN sneaking taking points for mental illness

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Sadly, the birds parents have kicked it out of the nest and its father said, “I don’t even recognize it anymore.”

Incredible 😊

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I now identify as a songbird. Change my mind.

Clearly it’s a transgender bird LOL ...it finally came out of the closet (whatever term a closet is in bird world LOL)

Very 2020

it is so beautiful

Amazing!

OMG a liberal's wet dream.

mmm let me remember how people just call this mmmm oh yeah, a failure in the nature evolution, mmm w/e

I’ve been identifying this way for as long as I can remember

First it was gay penguins, now genderqueer bird

something akin to the self fertilizing snail

So he could literally fuck himself? 🤣

Enter the conservatives who'll insist the bird can only be one or the other and is just trying to get attention

That bird doesn't have to leave the house.

Let’s pray these scientists let it live and don’t cage and torture it for the sake of science.

WOW!

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The wonders of God.

It’s part of the genus Nathanus Lanus.

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